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...noted for their prodigious outlay of energy-but little of it is ever wasted. When TIME's editors decided that the national energy problem was too pressing for us to wait for Jimmy Carter's new energy program, promised for April 20, they gave Washington Correspondent Don Sider the task of finding out in advance the details of the emerging program. Naturally, Sider went to see Presidential Assistant James Schlesinger, the subject of this week's cover. Just as naturally, Mr. Energy was not about to hand over the blueprint of a policy he was just then...
...Bell's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee could be lively, the committee is chaired by Mississippi's archconservative James O. Eastland, who urged Carter to appoint Bell. At week's end, moreover, some black organizations that had loudly opposed Bell appeared ready to recon sider in view of his pro-civil rights decisions. Certain Carter watchers, meanwhile, forecast that the President-elect will name some well-known civil rights activists to important jobs at Justice just to speed up the cooling-off process...
Talking with TIME Correspondent Don Sider, Schlesinger described his job as a crusade. Said he: "If we can define the challenge to Americans, we will have a strong response, providing something we as a people have lost-the sense of our common destiny and purpose...
...University of Chicago President Edward Levi became U.S. Attorney General two years ago, he found the Justice Department battered and demoralized by the storms of Watergate. Now, as he prepares to return to Chicago, he can look back over some significant changes. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Don Sider, he assesses some of those changes...
Dangerous Work. Mexican Brown -or Heroin/B as the feds call it-accounts for more than two-thirds of the horse shot into the arms of an estimated 400,000 U.S. addicts. The arrests, reports TIME Correspondent Don Sider, "grew out of several years of usually dull, sometimes dangerous work that began to come together last May." Using information from undercover agents and pushers-turned-informers, the DEA began tracing in detail the distribution web. Early this month officials concluded that they knew enough about 57 distribution rings to try smashing them...